As we all know, basketball is a sport to compete for scoring. If you can stably get high scores, you will definitely be the mainstay of the team. In NBA history, Jordan is undoubtedly the most famous scoring champion. He has won the NBA scoring champion 10 times. What is most admirable is that in the 10 seasons in which he was elected scoring champion, Jordan also won a total of 6 NBA championships. However, it may be that Jordan has misunderstood the definition of scoring champion. In fact, the team that has the scoring champion may not be able to win the championship. In a sense, this is even a spell.
For example, in the NBA scoring champions in the past 20 years, no one can lead the team to the championship. The last scoring leader who led the team to the championship was O'Neal in 2000. . In the past 20 years, the NBA scoring leaders are: 2001 Iverson (31.08), 2002 Iverson (31.38), 2003 Tracy (32.09), 2004 Tracy (28.03), 2005 Iverson (30.69), 2006 Kobe (35.4), 2007 Kobe (31.6), 2008 James (30), 2009 Wade (30.3), 2010 Durant (30.1), 2011 Durant (27.7), 2012 Durant (28), 2013 Anthony ( 28.7) 2014 Durant (32) 2015 Westbrook (28.15) 2016 Curry (30.1) 2017 Westbrook (31.58) 2018 Harden (30.4), 2019 Harden (36.1), 2020 Harden (34.3).
Among the above 20 scoring champions, two of the scoring champions did not lead the team to the playoffs. They were Tracy McGrady in 2004 and Westbrook in 2015. There are also 8 scoring champions who led the team to be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. They were Iverson in 2002, 2005, Tracy McGrady in 2003, Kobe Bryant in 2006 and 2007, and Wade in 2009. , Durant in 2010, Westbrook in 2017. There are also 7 scoring kings who led the team to be eliminated in the semifinals and conference finals.They are in order: James in 2008, Durant in 2011 and 2014, Anthony in 2013, Harden in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Only three scoring champions led the team to the finals. They were Iverson in 2001 and Durant in 2012. And Curry in 2016, but without exception, they did not lead the team to win the championship. Among them, the 76ers led by Iverson lost to the Lakers 1:4 in the 2001 Finals. In 2012, Durant led the Thunder to a 1:4 loss to the Heat. The most regrettable thing is even for Curry in 2016. During that season, Curry led the Warriors to a 73-9 record that made NBA history. Curry was also elected as the regular season MVP by unanimous votes. In the finals, they once led the Cavaliers by 3:1, but then they lost 3 games in a row and were reversed by the Cavaliers!
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